Improve On-page and Off-page SEO performance: Without a properly optimized SEO strategy, you can’t drive traffic to Tumblr. There are tons of valuable articles on on-page SEO and off-page SEO on the Internet. You’re just a few searches away to find them.

Post beautiful pictures: Eye-catching images is the core of a successful Tumblr marketing campaign. Tumblr is filled up with captivating visuals. You don’t need to stop on static images. Make use of GIFs, whiteboard videos, explainer videos, and cartoons. You can design beautiful social media graphics for your Tumblr posts using GetStencil App. It has features to add quotes to pictures too. So, it’s a perfect tool for every graphic design needs.

Use custom theme: Custom themes will shift your Tumblr to the higher edge of a professional blog.

Use custom domain name: Build trust and make a compelling blog by mapping a custom domain name.

Improve user experience. (ex: navigation): UX or User Experience is the NEW SEO. You want to make it super easier for people to navigate through each page easily. Don’t allow them to use ad blockers. No pop over advertisements.

Quick loading time: People won’t come back if your Tumblr takes too long to load. Use an online image compression tool such as Tinypng.com to reduce sizes of images without losing quality before uploading to your site. My Tumblr on-page SEO guide will take you further from optimizing your Tumblr for loading fast.

Create social media pages: Social media is an unofficial metric of measuring how much authority your blog is. More followers your social media pages have, more followers your Tumblr will gain naturally. Use these social media tools to shift your social media marketing campaigns from zero to top.

If you are serious about blogging and want to generate lots of followers on Tumblr, I suggest you follow steps in this tutorial to convert your subdomain (yourblog.tumblr.com) to a top-level domain (TLD) (yourblog.com).

Conclusion

You can get followers for Tumblr without spending money for advertising and other paid promotional campaigns.

Yes, there are black hat methods to get subscribers to Tumblr too. But, as you and I know, they don’t work anymore. In simple words, they are USELESS tactics to get more followers on Tumblr.

Even though you used them, you won’t build a real follower base.

You should build a raving audience which will reblog your posts, share on their social media profiles and even link out to them on their professional blog.

Share your favorite method of getting more followers in the comment form below.

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Chamal Rathnayaka

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